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Re: st: Conditional statement with multiple string values?


From   "Dimitriy V. Masterov" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Conditional statement with multiple string values?
Date   Thu, 7 Jun 2012 16:41:10 -0400

The first will never work. The second command should work, but you may
have leading/trailing blanks in your strings. Use the trim function to
get rid of them.

You may also find the inlist() command useful.

DVM


On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 4:34 PM, John Whitmer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Statamasters,
>
> I'm trying to run a conditional "drop" statement based on multiple values in a string variable.
>
> I tried the following command:
>
>  drop if ACTION_NAME == "topic-viewed” | “organizer-viewed” | “discussion-home-viewed” | “assignments-listed” | “Web-Links-home
>> -viewed” | “folder-selected” | “compile-lm”
>
> And  received the error message "too few quotes".
>
> My quotes are paired ...
>
> Alternatively, I tried the following:
>
> . drop if ACTION_NAME == "topic-viewed” | ACTION_NAME ==“organizer-viewed” | ACTION_NAME ==“discussion-home-viewed” | ACTION_NAM
>> E ==“assignments-listed” | ACTION_NAME ==“Web-Links-home-viewed” | ACTION_NAME ==“folder-selected” | ACTION_NAME ==“compile-lm
>> ”
>
> And didn't get the error message, but there were 0 observations deleted - and this is a monster logfile with a lot of records with these values.
>
> Any ideas?  And I know the severity of the drop statement ...
>
> Best, John
>
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